Sarah Millin

Sarah Gertrude Millin, née Liebson (19 March 1889 – 6 July 1968), was a South African author.

[1] Five months later her parents, Isaiah and Olga, immigrated to Cape Colony and the family settled in Beaconsfield near Kimberley.

In 1894, when she was six years old, they moved to the diamond diggings on the banks of the Vaal River in the Kimberley area where her father opened a trading store.

This environment was to provide the setting for much of her future work that combined a love of the South African landscape with an abhorrence of the poverty and squalor in which most of the diggers lived.

Philip Millin died of heart failure on the bench while she had just begun to write her autobiography The Measure of My Days, an event which affected her deeply.

Millin is credited as one of the contributors to the screenplay for the film Rhodes of Africa, which was released in 1936 and starred Walter Huston.

Millin acted as editor of White Africans are also people,[17] published in 1966 in South Africa by Howard Timmons, and in the UK by Bailey Swinfen.